<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>O<font size="2">n</font>e thing to <font size="2">consider is that here we are talking in terms </font><font size="2">of chemically extractable calorific content. The actual <font size="2"><font size="2">convertible</font> energy and true value within that piece of Roquefort could power</font></font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font size="2"> you<font size="2">r house for days/weeks/months if we had a 100% efficient extraction/conversion method. Imagine if instead we digested food at the atomic scale. <font size="2">H<font size="2">o</font>w many usable calories in <font size="2">a</font>ll those <font size="2">lovely</font> atomic and subatom<font size="2">ic </font>bonds waiting to be cracked? Or cracked by cheap future energy technology. The kind we will be driven to build chasing <font size="2">efficiency<font size="2"> (better profit margin).</font></font></font><br>
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<div> The energy having been put the<font size="2">re</font> by billions of years of atom smashing and clumping in the stars. As I said, the entire universe becomes energy<font size="2">/</font>cash waiting to be exploited<font size="2">.</font><br>
<font size="2">The cost of pu<font size="2">tting <font size="2">energy collecti<font size="2">on technology on the moon becomes insignificant compared to the future yield <font size="2">from </font></font></font></font></font>all that cheese!<br>
Today we say<font size="2"> we don't have enough Gold/promises/faith to print paper to exchange for rockets to get to the moon. </font>?????? seriously ????????<br>
<font size="2">We need energy to get there. Energy to <font size="2">mine raw materials, to pro<font size="2">duce rockets and t<font size="2">o fuel the thing. We go there to get the waiting <font size="2">abundance</font> of energy</font></font></font></font>. It pays for itself a billion times over<font size="2">.</font> <font size="2">S</font>o why all <font size="2">the</font> interm<font size="2">iediary fiscal no<font size="2">nsense with gold and paper? We are not flying there on a gold powered paper plane.<font size="2"> ;o)</font></font></font><br>
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To: rafal <rafal@smigrodzki.org>; 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
Sent: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:34<br>
Subject: Re: [ExI] repercieve the economy [was: Engineering]<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>>... On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
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> ... Eating Roquefort releases a tiny fraction of the energy invested in
its production - does it mean I should stop eating it?
Rafal
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Ja, eating anything we eat releases only a tiny fraction of the energy
invested in its production. The most astonishing example of the lowest
ratio of energy released in consumption to energy invested in production
would perhaps be diet cola, where the numerator of the ratio is nearly zero.
spike
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